by Sheridan | Jul 24, 2013 | Tricks Explained, Uncategorized
Effect. Performer sketches a picture or cartoon on a sheet of white paper, with a border all round it, which is then taken off and rolled up tube shape. Now, after a few passes, the paper is unrolled, when the sketch or cartoon is seen to have vanished. SECRET....
by Sheridan | Jul 24, 2013 | Tricks Explained
AN ENDLESS PUZZLE. Remove your coat and then take a piece of twine some three yards long, tie the ends together, place it over your right arm and put your right hand in your waistcoat pocket. The trick is to take the string off your arm without cutting the twine or...
by Sheridan | Jul 15, 2013 | Tricks Explained
A great many amateur jugglers have in vain tried to emulate the great Paul Cinquevalli in his inimitable balance of two billiard balls, which defying the laws of gravity, rest upon one another with ease, and even consent to balance upon an ordinary billiard cue, which...
by Sheridan | Jul 10, 2013 | Tricks Explained
The two handkerchiefs with opposite centres are carefully rolled up under the vest, one each side. The other two handkerchiefs are exhibited and centres cut out with a pair of scissors. Now present the cut one, red, in the right hand rolled up in the shape of a ball...
by Sheridan | Jul 9, 2013 | Tricks Explained
Improved Ideas by FULLAM MCGLADE. One bowl is filled with rice, then placed over bowl containing water in the usual way. Reverse them, top bowl is removed when rice is seen to be overflowing, level off the rice and again place bowls mouth to mouth, reverse again, and...
